Lost with Expound theme
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I’m very new at this and even though I’ve been through the Learning categories, I keep getting stuck. The Expound theme says it can be 1 or 2 column, even though I see 4 on the sample – regardless, I can’t find a way to change mine from 1 to 2 (or more) columns. Nor can I find info for uploading any image but the Header image. Any help will be appreciated.
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Hi, I’m not one of the forum gurus, but I do use Expound. The four ‘columns’ you see on the sample aren’t actually columns, they are 4 featured posts shown as thumbnails with a short excerpt on the homepage. The other posts’ thumbnail photos will line up in one column below those first four. A reader will click on a thumbnail to go read the whole post.
When you click to read a post, it will not display in four columns. I think you really only get one column, not including the sidebar, but maybe a forum volunteer can clarify that?
There’s an option for full-width which means leaving out the sidebar, but I think that may only be for static “pages”, not for posts. (you can find out all about this the difference between posts and pages and how to set up your blog in the Support docs, see upper menu).
You need to have published some posts, AND included a featured image in each of them, before you can tag 5 of them “featured” to get the look you see on the demo. Then the most recent featured post will get the big photo up top, and the other four featured posts will line up horizontally below it. That is, unless you have a small monitor like I do, in which case the other four featured posts will display on top of each other. That’s part of the “responsive” display–it adjusts for different sized screens. You can check out how it changes by clicking Ctrl and + or – a few times to change the (effective) size of your screen.
If you look at my site, you’ll see what I mean… There are not 4 columns, just 4 thumbnails of posts that I have tagged as “featured” listed on my homepage, with the other posts listed below them in reverse date order…
http://loopbraider.com/Your homepage will still look good before you’ve made that many posts, as long as you give each post a featured image. That is not the same thing as tagging the post “featured”! you have to upload an image and use the “featured image” module on your editor page to get an image to show up as a thumbnail for your post…If you scroll down my homepage you’ll see I have a few posts with no featured image.
Good luck, ask if you have any more questions and someone who knows more than me will likely speak up…
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Oh, I forgot your uploading images question!
Click on Support (upper left), then type ‘images’ into the search box, and you will see a list of support docs that include both how to upload images, and how to upload a “featured image” into a post. -
@ hawkofmei,
@ ingridcc,The Expound theme says it can be 1 or 2 column, even though I see 4 on the sample – regardless, I can’t find a way to change mine from 1 to 2 (or more) columns.
When you click to read a post, it will not display in four columns. I think you really only get one column, not including the sidebar, but maybe a forum volunteer can clarify that?
That’s right. One column is where just the main content area (page or post) is displayed without a sidebar. Two columns means a main content area plus a side bar. Three columns would be either two main content areas plus a sidebar, or one main content area and two sidebars.
Expound is unusual in that if you remove the sidebar widgets the post content width expands into what would be the sidebar area. On most WP themes the post content width is fixed and removing the sidebar widgets will only leave a big margin to the right or left of the main content area.
Leaving the sidebar area vacant width the Expound theme in effect allows full width display of posts, with minimal margins, and makes the default width template on pages the equivalent of full width template.
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Thank you for your help with this. With the info you’ve given me I should be able to figure things out. Since I’m just beginning I don’t need a sidebar right now, and I’m glad Expound will widen into that space. And I probably will take you up on your offer ‘to ask if…’ because this learning curve is longer than I expected!
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Looks like you’ve already gotten some excellent pointers from ingridcc and musicdoc1!
In case you haven’t seen it, there’s a theme setup guide for Expound that has some info you might find useful:
https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/expound/
Let us know how you get along!
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